Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] Perl 5.6 on mips

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:39:33 -0700, "Josh Miller" <joshlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>I don't know about a qube2, but I've done this on a raq2 with no problems.
:>
:>I used http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz which is currently 5.6 and
:>instead of the suggested "sh Configure -de" I used "sh
:>Configure -deDprefix=/usr". This chooses all the defaults, except for
:>placing perl in /usr/local. (Note that this is probably a dangerous thing to
:>do without testing it on a non-production qube2)
:>
:>I did have the egcs from ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/experimental installed
:>when I first tried this and the compile failed miserably. Downgrading to the
:>version supplied with the raq2 fixed this.

I finally got around to installing Perl 5.6.0 on my Qube2 using your advice
above. It went without any problems - at least everything seems to still
work...  I did not have to do anything about the version of egcs. 

The install into /usr rather than /usr/local was not as dangerous as it may
seem since this version installs into a version specific path:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0. Perl --version does show up as 5.6.0 and programs that
need the later version (such as blq) now compile correctly. However, that
means a ton of really old stuff is left. This has pushed the root partition up
to 83%.

After your install, did you delete the old Perl version files? 

I am a bit worried about the files at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt/. 

I guess I could move them over to /home and set up symbolic links. Or maybe
just move them and see if anything breaks.

Thank you for your advice. 

Mike.